***The debut LP by HEIMAT, who's members consist of OLIVIER from CHEVEU and ARMELLIE from THE DREAMS. This one is ten tracks of afro-beat rhythms, cinematic soundscapes, and post-punk aggression. Almost as if John Carpenter, RZA, and The Slits made a record together. Sort of. Comes with an astonishing cover by ALEXANDER LOBANOV (1924-2003), the famous Russian Art Brut artist. A co-release with France's Teenage Menopause. No Export to Europe.
LP $15.50
02/19/2016
***The 12th release from Vienna duo NOVY SVET, Doce is a sentimental collection that spans 12 years in 12 songs recorded in their hometown Vienna, Barcelona, and Hamburg from 1998 through 2010. As a retrospective, Doce draws from across the band's catalog, showcasing their easy defiance of genre boundaries to create a fluid mixture of folk and experimental sounds, steeped in the haunting tones of "neosurrealist" instrumentation and arrangement, and somehow never tethered to just a single language. Nový Svět was one of the very first projects released by Austrian neofolk/industrial staple Albin Julius’ HauRock! label, allowing to branch out into collaborations with other groups on their roster (Derniere Volonte, Foresta di Ferro, etc.). Like the band, Doce is defined to a great extent by its avant garde texture, industrial rhythm, and understated translation of European folk influences, providing an ideal entrypoint into an endlessly varied apocalyptic folk scene that cast its shadow across Europe in the late nineties, before it heading to the US a little more than a decade later. For fans of Residents, Cult Of Youth, Dirty Beaches, Smalts and Cheveu.
LP $15.50
02/25/2014
***Hailing from Sweden, BRANKO bring us a brand new slab of wax with eight tracks of instrumental surf/african/garage rock a la Link Wray on a 33RPM 7". Branko play fuzzed out guitars, organs, and drums with sprinklings of the Ventures, Troggs, and Link Wray with a punk instrumental spin. Strange sci-fi samples litter the tracks of blown our bass guitars, fuzzy electrics, drums, and african percussion instruments. We haven't heard anything like this... ever. The 7" includes a digital download card for an additional nine tracks that are not on the 7" and are equally impressive (17 tracks in total).
7" $9.25
10/04/2011
***Paris, France’s CHEVEU’s newest release 1000 shows a much more polished and slicker sound than their previous releases, portraying the bands growth and adventurous, other-worldly style. That’s not to say it doesn’t sound like a Cheveu album, which is usually pretty damned difficult to pinpoint anyhow. Expect a whole new foray of sounds that include full horn arrangements, crazy RUN DMC-style beats, and the usual flurry of noisy electronics and Rolling Stones-type blues riffs. Limited to only 1,000 copies on black vinyl in the US and Canada, co-released by Kill Shaman in the US/Canada and Born Bad in Europe. Amazing cover art made out of fruit stickers and other fun stuff. Love it.
LP $17.25
01/25/2011
***Calgary, Canada’s SHARP ENDS have released their first LP on Kill Shaman. After two amazing 7-inches that moved at light speed on Hozac and Mammoth Cave, Sharp Ends spent the next 9 months writing and recording the ten tracks that have been lovingly smashed into wax for this fine release. The LP contains some of the finest post-punk weirdness ever heard, channelling bits of ‘80s British No Wave and colliding it with a Dischord-like agressive aesthetic, Sharp Ends have a real winner here. Recordeed by RYAN SADLER, mixed by the band, and mastered by GABE DUDES; these ten tracks will blow out your eardrums. Limited to 500 copies on black vinyl only, 45 RPM.
LP $15.50
11/16/2010
***A perfect ‘90s pop-album, THE MOLES’ Untune the Sky is finally being reissued on vinyl again after almost 20 years with original artwork and a beautiful insert. The Australian band Moles, led by solo artist and Robert Pollard collaborator RICHARD DAVIES, toured the US, Australia, and Europe with Guided By Voices and other great ‘90s pop acts. The double-LP is an exact reproduction of the extended Untune the Sky CD, containing tracks from the early What's the New Mary Jane double-7-inch and CDEP and the original Untune the Sky full-length, resulting in eighteen tracks of pure pop genius.
2XLP $18.60
04/20/2010
***The follow up to last year’s Death Control CD that garnered such praise, Life Control is an experiment further into the forays of the disjunct and fractured pop music that CHRISTOPHER CURTIS SMITH is so akin to producing. Life Control sees NIGHT CONTROL venturing further into the dark depths of sonic experimentation and ambience, circling back around to Derrida’s deconstruction theory and applying it to pop music. Sounds are manipulated, affected and tortured into loosely structured pop gems covered in organic acoustic guitars, blown out guitars and some of the most interested mixes of live and programmed drums. Expect to see this CD all over the place once again as Night Control has brought their signature sound to the next level of weird and interesting. This is the perfect soundtrack or city walking.
CD $14.00
01/26/2010